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MPEG LA is asking companies to prepare to attack the freely licensed WebM format and its underlying VP8 video codec from Google.

On their website, MPEG LA says:

In order to participate in the creation of, and determine licensing
terms for, a joint VP8 patent license, any party that believes it has
patents that are essential to the VP8 video codec specification is
invited to submit them for a determination of their essentiality by
MPEG LA’s patent evaluators.

In response, we're asking everyone who values a web free of
restrictions and threats like this — and especially everyone who
values the publication of audio and video files on the web — to
sign a pledge that they will join in a targeted boycott of products from the companies who sign onto this patent pool.

Together, we can name, shame and penalize any corporation threatening a free web.

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